In memory of my best friend Michelle Bowman, passed October 17th, 2006.













I walked a mile with Pleasure.
She chattered all the way,
But left me none the wiser
For all she had to say.
I walked a mile with Sorrow,
And ne'er a word said she;
But oh, the things
I learned from her
When Sorrow walked with me!

- Robert Browning

Michelle you are pain free now. I will never be the same again without you. We had a lifetime of friendship. But as of the past few years, it was you who inspired me to keep on going in my illness, and now that you are gone, I don't know what I will do when I feel so bad, I can't pick up the phone anymore to you...or have you come to me in my dreams. All I can do now is have faith to listen to your voice from another place, and remember how strong of a woman you were, and draw my strength from that. I will miss you so much and this hole in my heart will stay forever. I love you.
Your Best Friend Cathy